[Corpora-List] Boot Camp (Continued...)

[Linas Vepstas]

2008/8/18 W. Louw <louw at mango.zw>:

> Corpora used to be tiny (1million words traditionally) and held on heavy tapes
> that could be thrown onto desks with a shout of _habeas corpus!_ (heard less
> frequently since Gitmo). However, John Sinclair brought them to the point at
> which they are in excess of half a billion words of running text.

Except that the damned thing is not actually publically
available! It consists of copyrighted text.  Damn!  Those of
us who actually need to do do things outside of its limited,
proscribed "allowed" usage are shit-outa-luck, and are
reduced to analyzing Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, and
arxiv.org. I'd like to have access to a larger body of text
that is more varied and diverse.

--linas

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